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Exciting Rally With Capriles Closing His Campaign In Caracas

September 30, 2012

Even form afar, it is very exciting to watch today’s rally in which Capriles is closing his campaign in Caracas. Gigantic crowd! Capriles speaking well! Very emotional, very exciting! Wish I could be there! (I will be there to vote next Sunday!)More here.

I didn’t see the number of buses being the same amount as those of the government, which has used that tactic and more for so long. Nor do I know from where those buses originated — from nearby cities, or from far away.

i told my wife six years ago that the salvation of venezuela is that we are silvestre, como venados, not sheep.
we, unlike other peoples, do not readily accept orders.
the speech was incredible. i would have liked to see figured and to whom displayed on the wall.
a study on the hudson river???? i think the u s has probably done that…
mi voto es secretronski

Nicacat,
His lack of hatred is a breath of fresh air in a country that has been breathing it for so long.Let’s hope it becomes contagious among the people in general and a country based on mutual respect despite differences can be built.

Hopefully some of the “young chavistas” will decide to get some education
and clear their minds of the nonsense put there by Chavez.

I hope the military -on their own, decides to CLEAN THEMSELVES UP
from within to show the country and the world that they are better than
this garbage they are doing and saying these past years.
Stop those rediculous slogans. Take down the cuban flags, paint over
those rediculous murials…

Not only that, he was direct and accurate in his talking points. Half an hour. That’s all it took. And every minute was rich in content for the target audience. There was no beating about the bush, no vagaries, no meanderings, no non-sequiturs, no flights of fancy, no dreamscapes. In a country that desperately needs to get out of the quagmire, Henrique Capriles applied the appropriate pre-medicine to a public hungry for solutions and a way out.

Go easy on him, please. He was a kid, and kids are easily led. Remember, too, that at multiple points in world history, conditions bring forth the “right” man for the job and the time. What these men do with the trust invested in them, depends on their level of commitment and integrity. Chávez was ushered in because during the last decade of the IVth republic, poor economic decisions were taken that mired the country in chaos, corruption was rampant (though nothing like today), and the politicians had run out of both ideas and steam.

When I first heard Ch. over internet radio, I knew he was not balanced, but I remember thinking that a few sentences that he said, here and there, made perfect sense. I never voted for him. For I could not forget the instigator of all the bullets that flew, in 1992, near the ancestral family home in a sector of Caracas, where a dear, ageing aunt gained a cerebral hemorrhage, from all the fear.

Ira, lots of well meaning people voted for Chavez as late as 2006. I know at least 10 who are now Capriles supporters. The only bad apple in the basket is my wife’s mother who was trying to convince us today that Globovision was cheating by showing old videos to increase the number of people in their TV shots.

The terminally deluded will not change. Fortunately they only represent a small % these days. The end for Chavez is 7 days away.

There are still 4 (5?) days of appearances to come.
He said today he will visit 12 more states.
A Herculean effort.
Every time I see him going through the crowds my heart stops.
He should be more careful but I understand the need to be close to the people.

7 days more. Don’t know if I’m going to survive. Awaiting more dirty tricks or worse. Let’s just get this show over & get to the next step. 3 months of agony!

Island, I had watering eyes at the end. I must admit that I never thought that he could deliver such a speech, you were right, the connection was there. he was able to connect with the people, with us.

Regardless of the outcome of the election, we are in debt with him. He carry out the best campaign in many many years.

Um Syd, that would be the early version of Chavez, circa 1997. Only not really. Yes, he was speaking from the heart (as a friend, even a family member), but to a different audience:the pueblo. He was imparting vital knowledge but they were too uneducated to really get his point. Everyone else got it, but were so fed up with A/D, Copei, et al, that they pulled the lever for Chavez anyway.

Um, no, deananash. I listened to Chavez, early in his campaign, in 1998. And some of things he said were right on the mark: the need to get rid of corruption, the need to focus on the poor. I bought those statements. But there was an awful of nonsense fillers that didn’t quite hinge together. So from early on, I decided that this was not a balanced man. That became much clearer during a pre-election interview conducted by a Mexican television reporter (can’t recall his name, but he was outstanding). Chavez was so damned squirrelly and evasive, that I knew he would not be a good candidate for the future of the country.